Lara Rush

Lara Rush
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Lara Rush

Lara Rush

Senior Associate

Lara Rush
  1. People /

Lara Rush

Lara Rush

Senior Associate

Lara Rush

Senior Associate

London

T: +44 (0) 20 3400 2291

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Biography

Lara advises domestic and international clients on a variety of issues including mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, IPOs and secondary offerings on both the Official List and AIM, joint ventures, secondary issues and general corporate advice.

Lara works across a broad range of sectors such as Real Estate, Technology, Retail and Consumer Products and Mining & Minerals.

Lara has been recognised in the Legal 500 2025 guide as a Leading Associate in the Equity Capital Markets (small-mid cap) category and in the Chambers UK 2024 guide as an Associate to Watch for Capital Markets: AIM.

Lara Rush is one of the most impressive Associates I have come across. A relentless work ethic, technical competence and an extremely personable nature with clients means she maintains an excellent reputation in the industry.

Legal 500 UK, 2024

Admissions

  • Australia

Related Practice Areas

  • M&A & Corporate Finance

  • Corporate

  • Energy Transition

Experience

Lara’s experience includes advising:

  • Kape Technologies on its US$1.58 billion takeover by Unikmind, owned by Israeli business tycoon Teddy Sagi;
  • Manzanita and other shareholders on the sale of a majority stake in Byredo to Spanish conglomerate Puig;
  • SDX Energy on its recommended all-share with a cash alternative combination with Tenaz Energy Corp for £21.4m;
  • The shareholders of ME+EM Limited on an investment led by Highland Europe which valued ME+EM at more than £130 million;
  • Kape Technologies on its US$95 million acquisition of Private Internet Access, US$936 million acquisition of Express VPN and several equity fundraising totalling US$330 million;
  • Jadestone Energy Inc, with an internal reorganisation of its corporate structure with the effect that a newly incorporated English company Jadestone Energy Plc became the ultimate holding company of the group by way of a Canadian court approved scheme of arrangement;
  • The founders of leading football agency business, the Stellar Group, on their sale of the group to US-based talent agency ICM Partners;
  • Precious metals giant, Wheaton Precious Metals, on its admission to the standard listing segment of the Official List the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. With its current £17.3 billion market capitalisation, Wheaton was the biggest precious metals company to ever list in London;
  • The management of the Miya Group on its sale to French private equity firm Antin Infrastructure Partners for up to €600 million;
  • Susanne Kaufmann, the founder of Susanne Kaufmann Kosmetik GmbH, on the sale of her luxury cosmetics business to Manzanita US Investments LP, the European investment vehicle for the Fisher family;
  • Kape Technologies plc in connection with the proposed acquisition of LTMI Holdings, a leading US-based digital privacy company;
  • National Property Trade, a leading provider of accelerated property sale services to private vendors and property developers, on the establishment of a new joint venture with both a private equity sponsor and a number of legacy investors in an offshore property trading fund managed by NPT; and
  • Globalgrange, one of London's largest privately-held hotel groups, on the sale of their hotel portfolio (the Grange St Paul's EC4, Grange Tower Bridge E1, Grange City EC3, and Grange Holborn WC1) for circa. £1 billion, to Queensgate Investments.

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